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Rick Ross insists there’s “nothing” going connected betwixt him and Drake — contempt nan second dropping a diss way connected “Iceman” Friday.
The “Hustlin'” rapper exclusively said pinch Page Six this week while promoting nan caller Luc Belaire Alcohol-Removed Rare Rosé, his caller book “Renaissance of a Boss,” and his upcoming workplace album, “Set successful Stone,” which drops connected June 12.
When asked wherever he stands pinch nan Canadian rapper, Ross simply said, “It’s nothing.” But upon proceeding that Drake’s ninth workplace album, “Iceman,” was debuting Friday, he replied, “Is it?”
Drake notably took shots astatine Ross successful 1 of his caller tracks connected Friday. In his song, “Make Them Pay,” Drake raps, “Dog, I was aiding Ross pinch streams earlier Adin Ross had ever streamed.”
Ross, for his part, is releasing his 12th workplace medium adjacent period — and he tells america location will decidedly beryllium a diss way aliases two.
“It’s ever diss tracks. You cognize Rozay,” he laughed, referring to his nickname. “It wouldn’t beryllium nosy if it wasn’t. That competitory spirit, to me, is what made Hip Hop what it was. It has to beryllium competitive.”
“Life is competitive,” he continued. “You know, group could effort to make it arsenic saccharine arsenic possible, and I get it, but this is simply a occurrence arsenic a competitory sport.”
He besides said that his caller euphony will decidedly animate immoderate “conversations.”
“I’m judge nan Rozay fans know, I emotion to daze people. I emotion to cause, not controversy, but things to discuss,” he said. “Conversations will astir decidedly beryllium taking spot astir nan euphony and it’s beautiful.”
“The Boss” creator didn’t specify if immoderate diss tracks would beryllium astir Drizzy, but he did stock nan names of his collaborators connected nan caller project, divulging that he has songs pinch BigXthaPlug, Don Toliver, The-Dream, and T.I.
“I consciousness perchance [“Set successful Stone”] could beryllium 1 of my champion albums, if not my best,” he gushed.
Ross, 50, and Drake, 39, had respective hits together, including 2010’s “Aston Martin Music,” 2012’s “Stay Schemin’,” 2019’s “Money successful nan Grave,” 2021’s “Lemon Pepper Freestyle,” and respective more.
Despite being adjacent collaborators for much than a decade, their narration publically unraveled erstwhile Ross showed his loyalty toward Kendrick Lamar during nan latter’s massive 2024 rap warfare pinch Drake.
After Lamar dropped nan diss way aimed astatine Drake, “Not Like Us,” Champagne Papi deed backmost successful April 2024 pinch his ain shady track, “Push Ups,” taking shots astatine nan “Swimming Pool” rapper, Ross, nan Weeknd, Metro Boomin and Future.
Ross besides accused Drake of utilizing ghostwriters successful his 2024 diss way “Champagne Moments.”
He further fueled speculation that location was beef pinch Drake erstwhile Ross skipped complete nan “One Dance” rapper’s verses while performing their opus “Aston Martin Music” successful a “Verzuz” conflict pinch French Montana earlier this month.
When asked why he skipped complete Drake’s lines, he told Apple Music’s “Rap Life Review” that he was conscionable “being a boss.”
However, he past wished Drake well, telling listeners, “Drake, if you listening to this homie, perceive to me, my n—-a, shine. I don’t want to spot you lose. No existent n—a want to spot you lose. That ain’t what about. This culture, this game, this rap this ain’t what it’s about.”
Elsewhere successful his question and reply pinch Page Six, Ross discussed his recently released book, co-written by Neil Martinez-Belkin, which documents his roadworthy travel crossed nan state arsenic he grapples pinch a midlife crisis.
Throughout his journey, Ross told america he learned he had “so overmuch much to give” and “so overmuch much to unrecorded for.”
“You know, coming up to 50 years old, aft accomplishing truthful galore different things … I realized I still had truthful overmuch much passion and emotion for nan crippled and emotion to give,” he said. “So that’s what I do pinch my music.”
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The rapper-turned-entrepreneur besides utilized nan book to connection readers immoderate penetration into really they tin execute success.
“So galore group inquire maine each day, ‘Rozay, really did you execute this? How did you get here? How did you do this?’ And I effort to put it successful a measurement wherever you could digest it,” he said.
“This is for illustration my individual let’s spell riding pinch me,” he continued. “This is what life is. This is what it’s like.”
While Ross tin connection his guidance, he warned that not everyone tin scope his level of greatness.
“It astir decidedly depends connected nan type of personification you are, but there’s astir decidedly things that you tin sorb to make it to nan apical arsenic speedy arsenic possible,” he said. “You can’t trim nary corners…You gotta put successful that work.”
The Luc Belaire ambassador has been moving particularly difficult to beforehand nan vino brand’s caller zero-proof variation.
“I deliberation it’s cool. It’s a batch of young, you know, gatherings — that’s nan vibe,” he said of spirit-free beverages. “And present we are. We won’t fto you down. That’s what Luc Belaire does.”
